[pve-devel] [PATCH manager v3 2/2] 8 to 9 checks: check for removable grub-install

Stoiko Ivanov s.ivanov at proxmox.com
Thu Aug 7 22:30:04 CEST 2025


some upgrades result in unbootable systems, which can be traced back
to grub being installed in BOOTX64.efi, but not being upgraded by
grub-install. Refer the cases to the output of
`proxmox-boot-tool refresh` as it has a sensible check logic for those
cases. Some affected systems printed the warning of proxmox-boot-tool,
but it was lost in the large output of the dist-upgrade.

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
 PVE/CLI/pve8to9.pm | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PVE/CLI/pve8to9.pm b/PVE/CLI/pve8to9.pm
index 6381e62f..c2e830a9 100644
--- a/PVE/CLI/pve8to9.pm
+++ b/PVE/CLI/pve8to9.pm
@@ -1569,6 +1569,7 @@ sub check_bootloader {
         return;
     }
 
+    my $boot_ok = 1;
     if (-f "/etc/kernel/proxmox-boot-uuids") {
         if (!$upgraded) {
             log_skip("not yet upgraded, systemd-boot still needed for bootctl");
@@ -1587,13 +1588,21 @@ sub check_bootloader {
                     . " boot-related packages. Remove 'systemd-boot' See"
                     . " https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9#sd-boot-warning for more information."
             );
+            $boot_ok = 0;
         }
         if (!-f "/usr/share/doc/grub-efi-amd64/changelog.Debian.gz") {
             log_warn("System booted in uefi mode but grub-efi-amd64 meta-package not installed,"
                 . " new grub versions will not be installed to /boot/efi! Install grub-efi-amd64."
             );
+            $boot_ok = 0;
+        }
+        if (-f "/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi") {
+            log_warn("Removable bootloader found at '/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi' Check the"
+                . " output of `proxmox-boot-tool refresh` if further action is needed.");
+            $boot_ok = 0;
             return;
-        } else {
+        }
+        if ($boot_ok) {
             log_pass("bootloader packages installed correctly");
         }
     }
-- 
2.39.5





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